Quotes About Maturity

When you get kicked in the teeth, chew on it: don't bite back.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

We learn from every experience to be wise.

Self-discipline is the beginning of wisdom, not its end. When we have discovered the purpose for which self-discipline exists, we will, if we are sane, hardly recall anything about self-discipline because it has enabled us to become free to see and do so much else.

If faith ever rises to manly vigour, it must be by enlarging the mind's acquaintance with the whole extent of saving truth. Believers who would be strong and healthy, must not be detained upon the milk of babes, but must aspire to strong meat, and go on unto perfection. For faith to be strong and conquering, we must have variety of food. The entire truths of religion must enter into the regimen.

I'm growing older but not up. My metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let those winds of time blow over my head. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise.

Also I mostly stop doing drugs, which feels extra grown up. Not in any twelve-step kind of way. I simply couldn't take the hangovers anymore.

Cock size was a thing she hadn't talked about since college, now that she thought about it. Who discusses such things when they get older? Who has the leisure time?)

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

I was fifty years old, then, when I crept forth from my hiding place, my eyes blinking in the strong light. p 317

Squander your youth," he wanted to say, "and you'll have a lifetime to make heavy payments.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

The grim and gritty '90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is.

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

Ancora imparo (I am still learning). —Michelangelo, at age 87

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Goethe

One of the prizes of old age is its release from competition.

You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.

If you live to a certain age, you'll always have regrets. Most of them will be selfish.

Jane Austen's books are always, to some extent, concerned with the problem of learning by painful experience

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

I believe sincerely that only those men who reach the stage where it is possible for them to combat a second tragedy within themselves, and not the first over again, are worthy of being called mature.